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(For Swedish summary, please
click here.)
Formed in 1997, the Trio has gained an
enviable reputation as one of the most outstanding ensembles of its
generation. In 1999, the Trio won First Prize in the Melbourne
International Chamber Music Competition and in the same year was
selected for representation by the Young Concert Artists Trust in
London.
It has since appeared at numerous festivals and venues
throughout Europe, North and South America and Australia. Invited to take part in the BBC Radio 3's New
Generation Artists scheme in 2000, the Trio can be frequently heard on
Radio 3. Broadcasts have included concerts live from Wigmore Hall,
Bridgewater Hall, LSO St Luke's and the City of London, Cheltenham and
Edinburgh International Festivals. Selected as "Rising Stars" in 2002 by the
European Concert Halls Organisation, the Trio gave a series of recitals
at major venues throughout Europe and a debut recital at New York's
Carnegie Hall .
In recent years, the Trio's schedule has included
concert tours in both Sweden and Scotland, world première performances
of commissioned works by Joe Dudell and Helen Grime and concerts in
Germany, Spain and Switzerland as well as in the UK. A special
highlight of the year was the award by the Royal Swedish Academy of
Music of the prestigious Interpret Prize. The award was presented
to the Trio by Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden.
The 2009/10 season included performances at the
Lockenhaus Festival in Austria and the BBC Proms, a return visit to the Festspiel
Mecklenburgh-Vorpommern, tours in Sweden and in the UK for Music in the
Round and a performance of Martinu's Triple Concerto with Västerås
Sinfonietta in Sweden.
During the 2010/11 season, the Trio was invited to
perform Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Helsingborgs Symphony
Orchestra under the baton of Andrew Manze. They will also appear
in recitals in the UK, Scotland, Germany and Sweden. 2010/11 also
sees the release of the first of three Haydn Piano Trio CD's for Naxos.
The Trio's first recording of Schubert on the NAXOS
label was released in August 2006 to critical acclaim (click here
for further details). The Trio was subsequently invited by Naxos to
record Mozart's complete works for piano trio, which have been released
in two volumes.
The world première recording of Karen
Rehnqvist's Beginning for Piano Trio, commissioned for the Trio is
available on the BIS label.
Members of
the Trio also have teaching posts at Gothenburg University's School of
Music and give lectures, masterclasses and concerts throughout the year.
The Trio takes its name from the Swedish town in
which it gave its first performance and in 2001 it brought to Kungsbacka
a chamber music
festival, which has been held annually ever since. It has made several television appearances in Sweden and frequently
tours throughout the country.
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Swedish Summary
Kungsbacka Piano Trio, som bildades 1997, har redan
vunnit erkännande som en av de mest
framträdande ensemblerna i sin
generation och gjort en blomstrande internationell karriär. Sedan de vann First Prize i Melbourne
International Competition har trion framträtt
vid ledande festivaler och i de mest betydande konsertsalarna i Europa
och på många
andra håll runt om i världen.
Under 2003 deltog de i
konsertserien Rising Stars och debuterade i bl a New York, Amsterdam,
Wien, Salzburg, Bryssel och Aten. År
2000 inbjöds trion som New
Generation Artists av BBC Radio 3 och har sedan dess gjort många radioframträdanden,
bl a direktsända konserter från Wigmore Hall och Bridgewater Hall samt från festivalerna i City of London, Edinburgh
och Cheltenham. Tillsammans med BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra har de
spelat in Beethovens Trippelkonsert. Bland deras andra inspelningar kan
nämnas verk av Rehnqvist på skivmärket
BIS, Schubert trio och Samtliga Mozart trior för
NAXOS.
Trion har haft ett nära samarbete med en mängd olika kompositörer
och har uruppfört trior av bl a
Daniel Börtz, Karin Rehnqvist,
Jonas Bohlin, Richard Barnard, Helen Grimes och Paul Stanhope.
Under de senaste åren har Kungsbacka Piano Trio regelbundet
återvänt
till Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room och Concertgebouw i Amsterdam samt givit
konserter vid bl a Queen Elizabeth Hall, Muziekcentrum Vredenburg i
Utrecht, Oslo Kammermusikk Festival, Schleswig-Holstein festival,
Schwetzinger Festspiele och Berliner Philharmonie. Förutom otaliga turneer i europa har de även turnerat i Sydamerika, Australien och
på Nya Zealand samt givit
konserter i Kanada och USA. Trion återvänder regelbundet till Sverige och sedan 2001
undervisar medlemmarna vid Musikhögskolan
i Göteborg. De anordnar även sommarkurser, numera i sammarbete med
Musikkonservatoriet Falun. Sin första
konsert någonsin gav trion i
Kungsbacka, därav namnet. Där arrangerar de också
en årlig festival, nu inne på sitt nionde
år.
I november 2008 mottog trion Musikaliska Akademiens
prestigefyllda
Interpret pris ur Kronprinsessans Victorias hand.
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